My Age of Investment

Facebook's Silicon Valley offices welcomed a big-name figure.

The person who came had golden curly hair in a mess, with a full beard on his face, which looked a bit rough and slovenly.

The curly-haired man took a sip of the coffee that Facebook executives had just brought into the office, and praised with a smile: "The coffee is good!"

"You can drink more if it's good, you can refill it unlimitedly, and the toilet is also provided for free!"

Xia Jingxing's humor and wit made the curly-haired man laugh. He smiled and said, "Daren, when I sent an email to Facebook's official mailbox, I guessed that you would agree with me."

"Oh, why?"

Xia Jingxing smiled and looked at the young white man sitting across from him, thinking that the other party's words were really rude.

If you don't have absolute strength and self-confidence, it's just pretending.

Of course, this person may belong to the former.

Sean Parker, born in 1979, is also a teenage hacker.

At the age of 16, he hacked the website of a Fortune 500 company. Because his father unplugged the keyboard of the computer, he failed to log out of the website successfully, thus leaking the IP address and allowing the FBI to track him down.

Because he was under 18, the court only sentenced him to community labor.

At the age of 21, he founded Napster, a music sharing website with friends, which is the originator of P2P sharing technology, subverted the record industry, and was then accused of bankruptcy.

Although the business was a failure, it gained huge fame.

The Kazaa software developed by Xia Jingxing's founding team imitated Napster and highly praised Sean Parker, one of the founders.

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At the age of 25, he became the first president of Facebook in his previous life, and gave Zuckerberg, who was a business novice at the time, a lot of business guidance.

Later, he retired from the rivers and lakes, and with his holdings in Facebook, he is worth billions of dollars.

Sean was far from successful at this point.

With Napster going bankrupt, he's looking around for opportunities with nothing to do.

Facing Xia Jingxing's question, he seemed confident and said with a smile, "Because I have a way to help Facebook."

Xia Jingxing kept a polite smile, "Like what?"

"Napster had 80 million registered users at its peak, and I know how to get Facebook to meet or exceed that number."

Sean took a sip of coffee, put down the cup, spread his hands and continued, "You lack a president like me!"

good guy!

Come up and recommend yourself the president!

Xia Jingxing held back his smile and stared at the curly-haired man sitting across from him, "It's not easy to be the president of Facebook."

Sean looked calm, "I think I'm qualified for this position."

Xia Jingxing raised his hand? He motioned for the other party to continue speaking.

"Facebook is dangerous now? Did you notice that?"

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I really didn't notice it."

"Facebook is now focusing too much on the campus market and ignoring the vast off-campus and international markets."

Sean said with a serious face? "Dating sites are gradually eating away at your living space."

"The media said so as well."

Xia Jingxing felt that the famous Sean was just like that!

Originally thought that the other party would offer "Longzhong Pair"? It turned out that he thought too much.

This is not the Zhuge Liang he wants to invite out!

He didn't understand that the other party joined Xiao Mazi's Facebook? What kind of help did he specifically help.

The only things I know: The other party helped Facebook design the shareholding structure, ensured Xiao Mazi's right to speak in the company, and also taught Xiao Mazi a lot of business knowledge and experience of past people.

In particular, he helped Xiaomazi to get a $500,000 angel round of financing from Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, and Sean Parker's human resources,

played an important role in it.

Xia Jingxing thought for a while? If that's all there is to it? If the other party joins his company and becomes the president, it doesn't seem to be of much help.

Because of what Sean can do? It seems like he doesn't need it anymore.

But he didn't make a rash statement, and decided to wait and see to see how much the other party wanted? Could it match his ability and role.

Sean still didn't know that he had been calculated by someone clearly, and still explained along his own point of view: "I don't know what preparations Facebook has done for the competition of dating networks.

But if I were the president, I would immediately arrange for Facebook to conduct a Series A financing, and after getting sufficient funds, I would quickly open Facebook to all people..."

Opinions are ordinary!

Nothing innovative!

This was Xia Jingxing's first feeling after listening to the other party's explanation.

The other party must be a technical master, there is no doubt about this.

But one or two hackers, for the current Facebook, is no different from the role of an ordinary programmer.

Perhaps the salary of ordinary programmers is lower, and there are not so many stinky problems, so they can be used.

The curly hair in front of him has a lot of bad problems, especially when he wants to smoke opium.

In the past life, Sean was arrested by the police because of drug/drug use.

Afraid of affecting the company's reputation, Facebook's board of directors directly told Xiao Mazi to kick the other party out of the company.

Xiao Mazi is also unrelenting towards his business enlightenment teacher, and directly kills him.

Because Sean also invested a sum of money in Facebook in the angel round of financing, he was finally able to retain a part of Facebook shares and was out of the game.

When Xiao Mazi was in college, he didn't even know that "the website is run by a company", and thought that "the website is run by individuals".

This kind of business novice was also taught by Sean Parker.

But Xia Jingxing didn't need this kind of training, no matter how he went about starting a business in his previous life, he would still be a bit stronger than Xiao Mazi at the same time.

As for Sean Parker, Xia Jingxing felt that the other party might be really "luck over strength".

When he founded Napster, he had a good entrepreneurial partner to help him. When he met Xiao Mazi, he was considered to be "a match for an opponent and a good talent", just a match!

He suddenly remembered that in 2010, Sean Parker had started another business in his previous life.

He founded a social video service called Airtime.

Before it went online, it received $8.3 million in Series A and $25 million in Series B, which shows how eager the VCs are and how high their expectations are for this great god.

However, after the product went live...

400 people live per day and 10,000 people live per month.

After a joke, I never heard of this great god continuing to start a business.

A man's luck is over, or his time is over.

After Xia Jingxing thought about this, he had already made a rough assessment of Sean's value.

He said directly, "Sean, let's talk about the treatment! What do you want?"

Xiao En didn't expect Xia Jingxing to be so direct, but Xia Xing Xing was exactly what he wanted. He replied, "I hope to get a certain share of Facebook, and the salary doesn't matter."

Xia Jingxing did not respond positively and continued to ask, "How much is the certain shareholding?"

Sean didn't think much of it, he blurted out, "Let's give 3% first, it doesn't matter if it is distributed over many years."

Three percent, or give it first.

Xia Jingxing felt that the other party was still a little self-confident, and said lightly: "The equity of the co-founders of Facebook is only a little higher than the 3% you asked for. This is too much, we can't give it."

"The 2% can be distributed in four years!"

Sean lowered his conditions a little further, looked at Xia Jingxing, and waited for the other party's reply.

This was already his lowest psychological expectation.

As the founder of a website with 80 million users, he considers himself worth the price.

Before coming to Facebook, he had already talked to people on the dating network.

But unfortunately, the other party did not meet his conditions.

So he came to Facebook again to look for opportunities.

It can also be seen from the meeting order that he is more optimistic about dating sites, and Facebook can only be ranked second in his psychological position.

"One percent of the equity is distributed in three years. If you leave in the middle, you will have nothing."

Xia Jingxing thought about it and decided to give Sean a chance.

My own opinion that the other party's "luck is greater than strength" is not necessarily 100% correct.

Give others a chance, and give yourself a chance!

The failure of the other party to establish a social video website in the past life is not necessarily all due to the problem of ability. Factors such as advanced products and the background of the times have a great influence.

Change the era, change the platform, it may be another result.

Sean took a deep breath, shook his head, stood up without any hesitation, and prepared to leave.

"Thank you for the coffee!"

Before leaving, he did not forget to say thank you, showing open-mindedness and calmness.

Maybe you don't want to be underestimated by Xia Jingxing!

Xia Jingxing could only express regret for this result and did not say anything to keep Sean.

Because of whoever leaves the earth, it always turns the same way.

Everyone must face up to their own abilities, and even after success, they must reflect on themselves three times a day.

See if you have made the platform, or the platform has made yourself.

Without Jack Ma, the e-commerce platforms of Shao Yibo and Da Qiangzi are not necessarily worse than Taobao and Tmall, or even better.